The Gourmet's Lil'snack

Uh oh

Alex and Raymond are up but also Kian which is weird. Normally she should still be asleep. But she isn't smiling either. She even seems to be in pain as she holds her head with both hands and grimaces at every sound.

Thorne felt a bit bad for Kian. Was she sick or hurt? There wasn't anything she could do, but she hoped the woman felt better. With everyone except Humbert up, she went back to her home for the time being to update her journal and check what she had to do for the day.

Because of the headache, her sense is sharper and so she hears...something inside the roof. She hears tiny steps. She first thought of some rat but the rhythm of those steps isn't the same. She frowns.

She went about her morning as usual for now, grabbing something from her stash for breakfast so she wouldn't be bothering anybody downstairs for food. Humbert wouldn't be too happy to learn how many meals she'd technically skipped, but she figured she'd make up for it by asking Raymond or somebody for help with lunch later.

The new smell, the sensation of being watched (besides from her stream), her missing socks no longer missing, and now this? There is something crawling between the walls. Something not as instinctive as animals are but none less intelligent to stay hidden. She smiles and licks her lips only to flinch from all those thinking and let out a tiny whine. Alex gives her a glass of water to help a little with the hangover while Raymond makes one of his concoctions for it too.

If Thorne knew about all that, she would have shuddered. She would have stayed with Humbert or in the walls. She wouldn't go about her day as usual or do her laundry like she'd planned. She would have stayed inside, maybe let Humbert know and ask him to talk to her or something. But she didn't know, didn't see the look Kian got or even the hint that her cover had been blown.

Once Raymond gives his stinky but miraculous anti-hangover, she can think some more. More about how to capture that thing. She still lays down on the couch while thinking. How about something simple to start? Like "missing" some socks near her bedroom? Normally she always takes them off when she is downstairs. She will see if it either gathers them up in front of her door or gets them downstairs near the bathroom.

Alex watches her a bit, her face the same when she is thinking of some new strategy for a game when he got a text from a friend. "Raymond? Can I go to Arthur this afternoon? He doesn't understand math at all..." He nodded and proposed to drive him there. They will leave in two hours. 

Of course, Kian hears that and smiles more.

Perfect.